Writer is not formatting and bordering docx tables the same

asked 2012-02-25 17:18:56 +0200

DGPickett
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updated 2013-02-06 07:10:18 +0200

qubit
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Word 2003 shows a word table, but libre office writer shows several differences:

1. Even with the show all, I see what looks like floating paragraphs until I see a roll over popup comment or turn on Table Boundaries. This is a print view and the borders of table cells do print, so they should not disappear by default.
2. The table and underlying text is one page on word 2003 and openOffice text, but 1.6 pages on libreOffice.
3. The cellfill/font-color/reverse in the top cell is missing in libreOffice and openOffice text.

BTW, this 'ask' web app has numbering that does not know how to indent or number. When you play with the numbered list in edit, it generates more empty lines, lines with the same numbers, blank lines between and inside paragraphs, and folds paragraphs to a column narrower than the frame. When I save the edit, I get a mix of short and wide lines!